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ViewsWednesday, September 07, 2016Empire in Decline: When the Oligarchy Inherits the WindThe unthinkable may well happen. The US may elect as President a racist, xenophobic, narcissistic, con man with no knowledge of policy or governance. As of now, Trump holds a slight lead over Clinton in the latest poll. Real progressives could be forgiven for feeling a healthy dose of schadenfreude...Read more

ViewsFriday, September 02, 2016Making 'Our Revolution' OursOne of the most remarkable things about Sanders’ campaign was how it electrified the young, reinvigorated progressives, and forced Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party to lurch desperately to the left. Of course, once she got the nomination, she wasted no time in tacking back to the right of...Read more

ViewsThursday, August 25, 2016Clinton Wins in A Cakewalk? Don't Bet the Ranch on ItIf you listen to the media and the pundits, most are predicting a surefire Clinton victory – if not a landslide. One of the reasons for this misplaced optimism is that they seem to believe Sanders’ revolutionaries are all prepared to join hands with the PACster politicians and DLC types dominating...Read more

ViewsTuesday, August 02, 2016What the Democrats Don't Get (And Why It Could Cost Them the Election)If you’re a Democrat, you probably think the Democratic Convention was a big success. Not only did they silence the Bernie die-hards, but they dispatched some serious heavy artillery on Trump by calling out his fear mongering and his megalomanic, “Only I can fix it.” And, yes, the first post-...Read more

ViewsSaturday, July 23, 2016Clinton's F-You to Progressives: This is How Trump Could Become PresidentHere’s what Hillary Clinton’s selection of Tim Kaine as her VP tells us: She suffers from a possibly fatal mix of arrogance and political cluelessness that may well hand the election to Trump; She is totally beholden to the Oligarchy she claims to want to reign in; She’s not a progressive – and her...Read more

ViewsMonday, July 04, 2016Put Away the Fireworks... You Don’t Live in a Democracy AnymoreWithin the last 30 years, while we’ve chased bogeymen overseas and here at home, our Democracy has fallen. We have been taken over; defeated; our voices neutered; our freedoms trampled; our democracy vanquished. No invading force accomplished this; no jackboots echoed across our republic; no alien...Read more

ViewsFriday, June 03, 2016Bernie Sanders and the Fundamental Crisis of U.S. DemocracyThink of a problem or challenge facing us, and then trace it back to its roots. If you’re honest, you’ll arrive at the role of money and its undue influence in politics and on the media. Gun control? There is no chance for sensible laws ending the genocide without first reducing the NRA’s influence...Read more

ViewsMonday, May 30, 2016Establishment Democrats Courting DisasterIn the 1964 film classic, Dr. Strangelove, Slim Pickens is seen riding a nuclear bomb down to his certain death – and perhaps to the end of us all – while he calmly inventories his survival equipment. The Democratic Party Establishment’s commitment to Hillary Clinton is a lot like that. As Hillary...Read more